The southern side of Glen Coe includes some very well-known mountains and can be split into two groups; the ones you can see from the A82 and the ones you can’t. Included in the former group is Buachaille Etive Mor, Buachaille Etive Beag, the Three Sisters and the Ballachulish Horseshoe, and in the latter, three Munros between Glen Creran and Glen Etive (Sgor na h-Ulaidh, Beinn Fhionnlaidh and Beinn Sgulaird). With huge amounts of climbing and walking in summer and winter, this area is also home to a large cairn built for Queen Victoria, or so the story goes. Includes all major peaks above 600m.
I was asked to organise this walk for another Meetup group, as the main organiser had planned to do it, but then decided to do a different walk instead. There were only four of us, one of whom I hadn't walked with before, but I knew that she was an experienced walker. None of us had climbed Beinn Trilleachan before. We were all fairly well matched in terms of pace, and it was a beautiful day. It was the last day of a walking weekend, and we were a bit tired, so we didn't go too fast. Although there were pathless sections, the route-finding was fairly straightforward, and we had glorious views at the summit. The only problem was, one person left a walking pole behind accidentally on the way up. We spent some time looking for it on the way down, but unfortunately failed to find it.
